Anti tourism

During this summer’s European heatwave anger spread across the continent as the recent surge in tourism reached unsustainable levels.

We look at why the mass tourism industry has prompted such a backlash and ask whether we need to rethink ideas about what enriches and impoverishes a city and what needs to be done to ensure the future for cities currently overwhelmed by mass tourism.

Elizabeth Becker, former economics correspondent, New York Times and author of Overbooked, The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism